This man wrote a play in which a noblewoman, the lover of the poet Aleel, offers her soul to the devil in exchange for money to feed the poor. In addition to The Countess Cathleen, this man wrote a poem in which "the ceremony
This man wrote a play in which a noblewoman, the lover of the poet Aleel, offers her soul to the devil in exchange for money to feed the poor. In addition to The Countess Cathleen, this man wrote a poem in which "the ceremony of innocence is drowned." In that poem by this man, "the falcon cannot hear the falconer," and it asks "what rough beast ... slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?" That poem is this man's "The Second Coming." For 10 points, name this Irish poet who wrote "Sailing to Byzantium."
This man wrote a play in which a noblewoman, the lover of the poet Aleel, offers her soul to the devil in exchange for money to feed the poor.
William Butler {Yeats}